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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

May 18, 2011Gove County, Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2011, 11:44 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2011, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2011, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

972 
WUUS53 KGLD 190444
SVRGLD
KSC063-109-190545-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0021.110519T0444Z-110519T0545Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1144 PM CDT WED MAY 18 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1139 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  SCOTT STATE LAKE...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  THE MONUMENT ROCKS AND GOVE.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 83 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 123 AND 132.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.


&&

LAT...LON 3870 10103 3903 10064 3900 10025 3869 10071
TIME...MOT...LOC 0444Z 228DEG 22KT 3874 10084
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$

ROBINSON

3 follow-up statements

567 
WWUS53 KGLD 190458
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1058 PM MDT WED MAY 18 2011

KSC109-190508-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110519T0545Z/
LOGAN KS-
1158 PM CDT WED MAY 18 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3873 10082 3881 10082 3903 10064 3900 10025
      3890 10045 3869 10071 3869 10074
TIME...MOT...LOC 0458Z 228DEG 22KT 3880 10076
$$

KSC063-190545-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110519T0545Z/
GOVE KS-
1158 PM CDT WED MAY 18 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GOVE COUNTY
UNTIL 1245 AM CDT...

AT 1156 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL...
AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
THE MONUMENT ROCKS...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GOVE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3873 10082 3881 10082 3903 10064 3900 10025
      3890 10045 3869 10071 3869 10074
TIME...MOT...LOC 0458Z 228DEG 22KT 3880 10076
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN
$$

ROBINSON

936 
WWUS53 KGLD 190508
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1108 PM MDT WED MAY 18 2011

KSC063-190545-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110519T0545Z/
GOVE KS-
1208 AM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GOVE COUNTY
UNTIL 1245 AM CDT...

AT 1205 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL...
AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
THE MONUMENT ROCKS...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GOVE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3885 10079 3903 10064 3900 10025 3890 10045
      3871 10068
TIME...MOT...LOC 0509Z 228DEG 22KT 3884 10070
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.50IN
$$

ROBINSON

816 
WWUS53 KGLD 190542
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1142 PM MDT WED MAY 18 2011

KSC063-190552-
/O.EXP.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110519T0545Z/
GOVE KS-
1242 AM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GOVE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
1145 PM MDT/1245 AM CDT/...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY...HOWEVER SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3885 10079 3903 10064 3900 10025 3890 10045
      3871 10068
TIME...MOT...LOC 0542Z 228DEG 22KT 3897 10051
$$

ROBINSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	48 min
May 18, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	60 min
May 18, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	26 min
May 18, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	49 min
May 19, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	30 min
May 19, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	61 min
May 19, 7:20 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more	6 hr
May 19, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2011 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.